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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Are these the only three connection points? And are they just stacked foam or is there something like wire also?

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

struck with a moment of real stupid inspiration

an icon in a red circle that says "Anti-Clickbait Action". it has three arrows facing down but the arrows are cursors with a trail behind them, over a field of lorem ipsum.

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

that's a different rant. we won't go there

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

AI has been and continues to be plagiarism bsky.app/profile/moth...

"The companies know full well that by ingesting content and training the Als to spit it back out again, they are destroying the audience for publishers and other creators. OpenAl policy director Jack Clark wrote that the company was "creating systems that substitute for the labor of the people that define the culture of society Microsoft's own research found that when people used Al search versus traditional search engines, there were 90 percent fewer clicks to news articles. Microsoft's lawyer said that chatbots are "designed to answer your question" rather than "giving you a series of links to things you can go look for yourself." Another expert found that referral traffic to publishers from Google Search and Google Discover has dropped by at least 30 percent since Google introduced Al overviews."

"OpenAl also said its goal was to "crush freshness...in the domain of real-world news." They also downloaded existing datasets, such as one intended for linguistic research that contained countless articles from paywalled news sites, even though its terms of use expressly prohibited using it for commercial purposes."

"This one was surprising to me, even after being involved in this lawsuit for two years: OpenAl took 20 million ChatGPT responses and had one of its experts search for chunks of text--specifically "25- grams," aka chunks of 25 words in a row, that were identical between ChatGPT's responses and a news article. They found more than 400,000 of these 25- word overlaps between ChatGPT and Mother Jones articles--just about the same number as for the New York Times. (Not every one of those overlaps might constitute a "regurgitation" of our content- if one of our articles quoted something, and the Al quoted the same thing, that would show up as an overlap.)"

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

to reinforce the point i am always making about AI claims and marketing: Not A Generative Model (analytical, and trained on a limited and purpose-built body of data)

"We developed RADAR, a general- ist vision-language model trained on more than 400,000 contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography (CT) examinations and 15 million anatomy-wise image-text pairs, learning directly from clinical reports without manual annotation."

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Explicitly antithetical to Fair Use claims!

quote from article: "OpenAl's policy director Jack Clark wrote that the company was "creating systems that substitute for the labor of the people that define the 'culture' of society" and Microsoft, in a policy document, wrote that generative Al could "significantly disrupt the employment of the very people who generated the data on which the foundation model was trained [...] LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain." "

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

amazing how anti-copyright talk is always libertarian-brained teenage rebellion farce that never addresses how artists are supposed to exist. i'm not saying it's good but there's never any concern outside of one particular angle. that is not a critical discussion, that is Whining But With A Tie On

from GrapheneOS: "Copyright does far more harm than good and should be abolished. It doesn't protect the livelihood of individuals and small businesses in practice. Instead, it's a weapon wielded by large corporations to protect their monopolies. It's abused to take down content that's not in violation of copyright and to restrict people being able to use/repair/modify/backup their property. Large corporations getting special exceptions from it didn't start with LLMs."

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

lmao fuck off we live in such a stupid time

quote from article: "One immediate change is that Pizza Hut is temporarily dropping "Pizza" from its branding and will simply go by "Hut" during football season."

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

outlier is fun but i think you should instawin if you come up with a word that is not in their dictionary.

meme of the guy looking annoyed with his hands on his hips

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

omg The Bananas In Pajamas!!!! i love your work!!!

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

i am extremely into scouts' flourescent DM gloves

Madison on the field with the backfield DM and their neon green gloves

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i know i bitch about lack of uniform construction all the time but look at all the tailoring on this old uni. just for contrast!

some old military style tails with lots of curved shoulder and arm seams

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I love Halloween. I am one of the Halloweeniest motherfuckers you'll ever know. This is Too Fucking Early for Halloween and autumnal shit! Fall doesn't start until THE END OF SEPTEMBER.

"Starting July 30, early packs will drop in limited quantities exclusively on TikTok Shop before rolling out to major retailers nationwide on Aug. 10."

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

fuck yes it's Post Stupid Fucking Latte Day again

a """"""steampunk""""""" boston dynamics dog robot named Latte. it has been hastily slathered in plastic crap like gears and wires in a way that looks like a sadsack scrapbooking project and neither a fantastical robot dog nor an incredible retrofuture machine. it is bad.

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

fuck i missed it HAPPY BELATED DRUM BULGY DAY

a photo of a letterboard sign that says

"Willamette University
DRUM BULGY
JULY 2"

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Are you using generative AI for the documentary?

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

HAPPY POST STUPID FUCKING LATTE DAY 🎉

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

i see the conservative grifter email spammers have moved onto the pro-AI front

an email which says "BROADBAND NATION EXPO — Announcing the Data Center Excellence Summit"

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

you know what's Definitely Not Suspicious Corporate Bullshit? an AI ad of a grumpy old woman shitting on environmentalist projects fuck you

a banner ad with AI graphics that says "Californians already can't afford California. And Sacramento politicians are about to make it worse.

Rethink SB 54

Paid for by Californians for Affordable Packaging"

The AI image is of a gray-haired, upset-looking woman whose crossed arms mysteriously look like one wrist going both ways and whose cardigan is also her scarf. It's sooooo legit and definitely not weird

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

i would love to talk to a plastics specialist and understand why every matte plastic object made just in the last 10-15 years has rotted into literal tackiness

a close up of a pair of sunglasses with a sticky surface covered in scratches and dirt

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👻Boo-ja🎃 Blastoise @bajablastoise.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

reposting with alt text because this is succinct in an important way which clearly communicates across the breach of analysis vs. imagination

screenshot from Threads (i think?):

bbeattiewrites: "I heard an interview today about Al in creative spaces and the man being interviewed said "Al is data, and Data can only look backwards. Creativity looks forwards." And I need to sit with that in the best possible way."

reply from kevinfloerke: "Hans Zimmer had the best quote when he said "Al is a snapshot of the past being sold as the future.""

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